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		<title>Estranged Labor and Love in &#8220;Two Blue Birds&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA["Two Blue Birds"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[D. H. Lawrence&#8217;s &#8220;Two Blue Birds&#8221; may be read as the story of three individuals&#8217; alienation from themselves, from one another, from language, and from the rest of the world. The two women in the story could hardly be more different, yet they both experience alienation from Cameron Gee. Miss Wrexall’s alienation is the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conchcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7937178&amp;post=202&amp;subd=conchcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enchantment: A Questionable Index of Love in “Araby”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhoda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Arab's Farewell to His Horse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In James Joyce’s short story &#8220;Araby,&#8221; the callow narrator acts on his adoration for a girl he hardly knows, only to realize at the end how blind he has been to the reality of his circumstances. The nameless boy is infatuated with Mangan’s sister, whose influence is such that she clouds his vision of reality. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conchcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7937178&amp;post=191&amp;subd=conchcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Da Chen&#8217;s &#8220;Sounds of the River&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhoda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[memoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sounds of the River]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Da Chen&#8217;s Sounds of the River limns the author&#8217;s student days in the prestigious Beijing Language Institute, providing a personal vista of a China resuscitated from the spell of the Cultural Revolution. Mao Zedong is still revered by some authority figures, while others, like Da&#8217;s friend Abdullah, are daring and irreverent enough to take a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conchcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7937178&amp;post=187&amp;subd=conchcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science fiction</title>
		<link>http://conchcommentary.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/leguin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhoda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Left Hand of Darkness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor.&#8221; - Ursula K. Le Guin, The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conchcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7937178&amp;post=178&amp;subd=conchcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buoyed by Ivan Panin&#8217;s THOUGHTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhoda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bible Numerics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gematria]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To recognize the vanity of this life is the first step towards the true life. To perceive our ignorance is the first step toward true knowledge; to acknowledge our folly is the first step to true wisdom; to behold our misery is the first step toward true happiness.&#8221; - Ivan Panin, Thoughts Ivan Panin was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conchcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7937178&amp;post=147&amp;subd=conchcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review of HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad</title>
		<link>http://conchcommentary.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/review-of-heart-of-darkness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhoda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as the methods of civilization are as unequivocally manifest as the power of nature, so in humans there can be a capacity for restraint that is just as immanent as the impulses toward avarice and aggression. Societies reinforce the restraints they sanction in numerous ways, but when such external supports are eliminated, civilized men [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conchcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7937178&amp;post=12&amp;subd=conchcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review of ALL THE PRETTY HORSES by Cormac McCarthy</title>
		<link>http://conchcommentary.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/review-of-all-the-pretty-horses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhoda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When characters are forced to confront the vagaries and consummate powers of nature, they are galvanized by an elegiac yen to repeat the entrenched patterns and plots of the past. The present is essentially an illimitable process of repetition. In All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, as John Grady Cole gradually starts to realize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conchcommentary.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7937178&amp;post=3&amp;subd=conchcommentary&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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